Week 05 before launch - Preparing parts for decking

 02.11 - 08.11.15

Preparing parts for decking 

 

This week we wanted to start with decking. Together with Pete we positioned Okoume-Ply above the deck construction, marked all positions of beams, carlins, half-deck beams, lids and hatch and cut the parts. Afterwards we taped them on the later glue lines, epoxied and primed them.

Additionaly we primed and painted the Sheerclamp and halfdeck construction.

All this paint jobs were really a lot of work and I underestimated the amount of time it will take. There appeared a feeling of "We cannot do it till launching day..."

Beside all that work I varnished the mast, boom and yard in the GRP-shop for several times. The problem with all that paint work is that you always have to wait for 24 hours to get the next coat on. So it takes time.....

Varnishing the centerboardcase, bulkhead and knees and painting the bilge.

After we´ve finished all this time-taking work, we taped everything thouroughly to protect it against epoxy and glued in the pads we´ve already prepared last week. After that we removed the tapes or better, tried to remove..... Never use cheap plastic tape :-((( GRRRR! It took us 4 hours to get that stuff off again and to clean everything with lots of acetone. This was really one of the most annoying jobs, we had to do!

.... and time passed by......

Finally we had all parts ready and half of the foredeck could be assembled. What a joy!

We glued and nailed the deck with epoxy and copper gripfast nails every 150 mm.



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At this stage I got good help from Mike, who made the seatconstruction for the cockpit. In the back you can see the already epoxied cockpitsole ready to be bilge painted.